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School Lunches Around the World1 Many parents worry about the food that children eat. They especially worry about the food that children get at school. Why? Health and weight are becoming a problem around the world. Many people believe that children eat too much fat, sugar, and salt, especially in school lunches.2 This isn’t a problem everywhere. In some countries, schools don’t serve food to students. Some students go home for lunch, and some students bring their own lunches to school.3 The BBC News website asked people from around the world this question: What do (or did) you eat at school for lunch? Here are a few answers:• Bruno, 10, France: Today, we had grapefruit, grilled chicken, green beans, cheese, and pudding for dessert.• Sarah, 8, Florida (USA): We get to choose. Today, I had pizza, salad, sweet, and milk. We have a soda machine at school. I don’t buy sodas. My mom doesn’t let me.• Max, 11, Ukraine: We start with borscht (a kind of soup). We usually have sausages or some other kind of meat and mashed potatoes. Today we had syrki for dessert.• Wei, 25, Massachusetts (USA): In China, where I grew up, students went home for lunch. Parents also came home for lunch, so we usually ate a good home-cooked4 meal.• Ping, 23, Taiwan: In Taiwan, children under 12 have lunch in school. Usually there is rice, two kinds of vegetables, one kind of meat, and a bowl of soup. You can eat like you eat at home.• Laura, 32, Puerto Rico: My daughter usually has rice and beans, salad, and chicken for lunch at school. It comes with milk, but she never drinks it. The government tried to include fast food5 in school lunches, but the parents didn’t allow it.

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 Restaurants, Then

and NowRestaurants 100 years ago were very different from restaurants today. Let’s take a look at three examples from Southern California.One is from the 1900s, one is from the 1950s, and one is from the 2000s. 1900s: The Royal Restaurant, Los Angeles, CAA hundred years ago in the United States, people ate a lot of food. They liked foods from home, and home was often “the Old Country1” or a farm. People found food like this at the Royal Restaurant. The Royal Restaurant served a complete lunch. The meal included soup, fish, an entree2, vegetables, dessert, and a drink. At the Royal Restaurant, people ate fricadellen and muskmelon. They drank buttermilk. Today, it is very difficult to find fricadellen (a kind of Dutch meatball) on an American menu. Muskmelon (a fruit) is now called cantaloupe. And today, very few people drink buttermilk (the liquid that is left after cream becomes butter). 

1950s: The Mocambo, Hollywood, CAIn the 1950s, more people in the U.S. had moneyto eat well. They were interested in foreign food.They were especially interested in French food. The Mocambo in Hollywood was a typical fancy restaurant in the 1950s. Movie stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and )udy Garland ate at the Mocambo. The Mocambo served the stars elegant dishes. For dinner, people often started with a half of a grapefruit. They had Lobster Thermador Prince de Monaco, lobster in a sauce. (The name of this dish came from a real prince who married a movie star.) Some people had a French-style dessert called crepes suzette. These are thin pancakes with an orange sauce. Today, Americans mostly eat grapefruit for breakfast, not dinner. Lobster Thermador and crepes suzette are old-fashioned dishes, but you might still find them on some menus.2000s: five sixty one, Pasadena, CAIn the 2000s, Americans are trying to eat less.They are trying to eat healthy food. And they areinterested in foods from all over the world. Thefive sixty one restaurant is an example of a modern restaurant. It serves healthy dishes in ethnic4styles. For example, at five sixty one, you can start with Tuna Tataki. This is a Japanese-style salad with seaweed. Next, you can have Vegetable Tagine Casablanca. This is a Moroccan-style vegetarian5 dish. A meal at five sixty one costs twice as much as a meal at the Mocambo in the 1950s, and it costs about 100 times more than a meal at the Royal Restaurant in the 1900s! 

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A Timeline of Food Inventions timeline, food, inventions

18892002

dishwasher, first ice cream cone, frozen food, canned soft drinks,first microwave oven, Seedless watermelon, Flavr Savr tomatoes, tear-free onions

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Italo MarchionyClarence Birdseye

Warren BarhamCalgene

Shinsuke Imai

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soft drinks, seedless watermelon, Flavr Savr tomatoes, tear-free onionsdishwasher, microwave oven

microwave ovencanned soft drinks

frozen food

ice cream cone, frozen food, canned

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d. Cafes appear in Europe.

f. Boulanger serves meat with a sauce.

c. The restaurant becomes a place to serve all kinds of food.

e. The French Revolution happens.

b. French-style restaurants appear around the world.

a. taverns serve food to travelers.

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This concludes Chapter 1.